That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

The only difference between holding one god as exclusive or supreme and believing in many gods specialized in function is the number.

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.

Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.

I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.

The greatness of Ty Cobb was something that had to be seen, and to see him was to remember him forever.

Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.

I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.

It's not what the mind says. It's how seriously it is taken.

Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . .